The Love of a Good Woman

Contemporary Short Stories

Author: Alice Munro

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women – unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable – and brings their hidden….Read More

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